Word for the Week

Lift up your hearts!

Week beginning: 17th January, 2021 | By Hugo Porter | Aldershot

Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him. It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them.

Luke 12:35-37 (NIV 2011)

In the Communion liturgy at my church, before the bread and wine are taken, the vicar says, "Lift up your hearts", to which we respond, "We lift them to the Lord". What a wonderful affirmation of our love for God! In the weeks that follow the service